[color:"orange"]At hard difficulty, you'll have GREAT difficulty in JUST successfully hitting your opponents.[/color]
How is your agility? That is what determines your offense and defense, which in turn are used to calculate your chance to hit and be hit. See '
differences between classes' (minor spoilers) for more details.
Playing on normal difficulty, I found a sword with frost on it in the Dark Forest, which made the game a cakewalk. I only used it for a short time, but anything I hit (trolls, lizards, etc) stayed frozen until it died, and at best they could get one hit in on me before I hit them.